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About Concha Ortiz y Pino
- Maria Concepcion "Concha" Ortiz y Pino de Kleven (born 23 May 1910) was born to a prominent family of politicians in Galisteo, New Mexico.
- In 1936 she became the sixth generation of her family to serve in the New Mexico legislature.
- Her father, Jose Ortiz y Pino, spent 10 years in the state House of Representatives.
- In 1941, at age 30, she became Democratic majority whip, the first woman to hold such a position in state government.
- President Kennedy appointed her to the National Council of Upward Bound.
- Ortiz y Pino founded the state's first educational program dedicated to traditional Hispano crafts, the Colonial Hispanic Crafts School, in Galisteo in 1929.
- She advocated for bilingual education, disabled and women's rights. In 2004 Governor Richardson named the building for the Office of the State Engineer after her.
- She died in Santa Fe September 30, 2006.
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